Readme File for "Development or Rent-Seeking? How Political Influence Shapes Public Works Provision in India" by Anjali Thomas Bohlken.


1. The Harvard Dataverse contains the following files:

A. Data Files

(i) Name of File: BIMARU_Roads_Constituency.tab

	Description: This is the constituency-level dataset used to generate the tables 	and figures pertaining to the RDD analyses in the main text and other results 		described in the online Appendix.

(ii) Name of File: BIMARU_Roads_ProjectLevel_allcontractors.tab

	Description: This is the road project-level dataset used to generate Table 2 in 	the main text and additional tables and figures described in the online Appendix.

B. STATA Do-File

Name of File: AnjaliThomasBohlken_DevelopmentorRentSeeking_TablesFigures.do

Description: Do-file containing commands required to generate Tables and Figures in the main text and online appendix.


C. Codebook 

Name of File: AnjaliThomasBohlken_DevelopmentorRentSeeking_Codebook.pdf

Description: Codebook containing information on variables in the constituency-level and 		project-level datasets


D. Log File

Name of File: AnjaliThomasBohlken_DevelopmentorRentSeeking_Results.log

Description: The log file obtained when running the do-file 		"AnjaliThomasBohlken_DevelopmentorRentSeeking_TablesFigures.do"



2. Steps to Reproduce the Results 

(i) Place the "BIMARU_Roads_Constituency.dta" data file and the "BIMARU_Roads_ProjectLevel_allcontractors.dta" data file in the same directory.

(ii) Change STATA's working directory to the one in which the above data files are located

(iii) In order to run the DCDensity command to produce Figure A5, please put the  		file "DCDensity.ado" (available at https://eml.berkeley.edu/~jmccrary/DCdensity/) 	in your ado subdirectory.  If you don't know where that is, try using -sysdir- at 	the STATA prompt.
	

(iv) Run the do-file "AnjaliThomasBohlken_DevelopmentorRentSeeking_TablesFigures.do"
	
	This do-file file reproduces all Tables and Figures in the Main Article as well as 	in the Online Appendix.